From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 23 01:54:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA17860 for current-outgoing; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 01:54:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA17846 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 01:54:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA20554; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 10:53:54 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA10605; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 10:53:53 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id KAA02077; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 10:50:18 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611230950.KAA02077@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: syslogd error on /dev/console To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 10:50:18 +0100 (MET) Cc: charnier@xp11.frmug.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199611220814.JAA00874@lirmm.lirmm.fr> from Philippe Charnier at "Nov 22, 96 09:14:07 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Philippe Charnier wrote: > Since the last change in syslogd, The first su command generates an error > in /var/log/messages speaking about /dev/console. xconsole does not always > report messages from su. Would you kindly post the error message, too? It's hard to guess what's happening on other people's machines. ;) xconsole works fine for me, here's the last four messages from it: Nov 22 01:15:53 uriah su: j to news on /dev/ttyp3 Nov 22 09:12:18 uriah su: j to r on /dev/ttyp6 Nov 23 00:19:38 uriah chat[29028]: SIGINT Nov 23 10:49:20 uriah su: BAD SU j to root on /dev/ttyp6 -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)